At Accenture Digital Core, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale, combining deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver meaningful transformation. You will bring innovation, intelligence and experience together to shape robust, secure and scalable digital solutions.
- Architect and evolve enterprise-scale data platforms, defining standards for data integration, storage, processing and governance across cloud environments
- Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end data governance frameworks, embedding quality, lineage and classification by design
- Engage with C-level and senior client stakeholders to translate business requirements into data architecture strategies and roadmaps
- Drive thought leadership on data platform trends, emerging technologies and best practices across internal and client-facing forums
- Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, setting technical direction and ensuring architectural consistency across delivery teams
- Own the enterprise data architecture, including reference architectures, design patterns and platform standards
- Define governance, security and compliance principles across data platforms, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR, sector-specific regulations)
- Establish data modeling standards, metadata management strategies and master data management frameworks
- Act as the primary escalation point for architectural decisions, platform issues and cross-team dependencies
- Lead architecture reviews, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient and aligned with business and technology strategy
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with client architecture and technology leadership
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable field
- 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering or data platforms in complex enterprise environments
- Deep expertise in cloud data architectures, preferably Azure (Data Lake Gen2, Synapse, Purview, Azure Data Factory)
- Strong command of data governance, data quality and master data management frameworks (e.g. DMBOK)
- Proven experience designing and delivering multi-environment, multi-domain data platforms at scale
- Track record of engaging and influencing senior stakeholders and translating strategy into architecture
- Professional English C1 level (spoken and written – mandatory)
- Strong collaboration skills within distributed and cross-functional teams
- Proactive mindset with a high sense of ownership and accountability
- Structured approach to incident and problem management
- Ability to prioritize workload efficiently in a dynamic environment
- Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space Nationality to legally work in Portugal